Chapter 10 ( Monique Proverbs)

Chapter 10 begins with Wildlife biologists taking bats census in the winter because they were hybernating. While doing this they found bats dead and covered in a white powder. This was a fungus  called Psycheophile which was killing all the bats. After this Kolbert talks to a German Meteorologist named Alfred. They spoke about finding different fossils of the same species spread throughout the world and taked about how the world was once all together as one big continent called Pangea. Kolbert then goes to the Adirondacks mountain and learned more about the fungus Psycheophile.  She finds out that the fungus kills the bats by dehydrating them. Kolbert brings up the term interconnectedness and “New Pangea”. She says that species in one continent has other speciss and animals in another continent and they are connect. She also relates this to the Columbian Excange and every continent benefiting from each other through trade. A quote that stood out to me was when Alan Burdick said that humans were the “ most successful invaders in biological history”. I agree with this quote because humans have caused much harm to other species and has hurt the environment in a huge a negative way much more than helping the environment. Kolbert went back to speaking on the bat situation and said that the bat species were endangered because of the white fungus on it. The fungus was spreading and this was happening while the bats were hibernating. The fungus was more successful like this because bats hibernate together.